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Journal Article
Classification of fault breccias and related fault rocks
2008
Overview
Despite extensive research on fault rocks, and on their commercial importance,
there is no non-genetic classification of fault breccias that can easily be
applied in the field. The present criterion for recognizing fault breccia as
having no ‘primary cohesion’ is often difficult to assess.
Instead we propose that fault breccia should be defined, as with sedimentary
breccia, primarily by grain size: with at least 30% of its volume comprising
clasts at least 2 mm in diameter. To subdivide fault breccias, we advocate the
use of textural terms borrowed from the cave-collapse literature –
crackle, mosaic and chaotic breccia – with bounds at 75% and 60%
clast content. A secondary breccia discriminant, more difficult to apply in the
field, is the ratio of cement to matrix between the clasts. Clast-size issues
concerning fault gouge, cataclasite and mylonite are also discussed.
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